The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-09-02

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with great contentment and pleasure,
as it adds, in his opinion, to his value
in the eyes of the world. No idea of
generosity or manliness seems to stir
up his conscience to the treachery and
cowardice heis displaying to the wo-
man who. whether the worlds infer
ences are correct or not, has sacrificed
her good name by her foolish fancy
for him. What does it matter to such
il miserable victim of vanity that q
fair lady's fair name is taken away by
the scandalous tongues Of society, if
onl y he feels that in the eyes Of his
fellow men he has been accredited with
a success that makes him an object of
envy and respect to his companions of
the same way of thinking as himself
on such subjects: He is thought more
of by his friends if he can score, or at
least have scored to him. several such
| so called successes with the ladies
! while any man who openly and with
manly courage avows that he would
scorn to take advantage Of any lady's
indiscrctions would in this age be
laughed at us a ''hat" and a fool in not
availing himself of the opportunities
that are thrown in his way. But by
far the lowest state to which young
men have now fallen is the habit, un-
fortunately very common, Of allowing
by implication that they are on more
than friendly terms with lady. This
is greatly attributable to the fact,
which we have noticed before, that
men now have not the slightest scruple
i'll talking about women in the clubs
and public places in way that they
ought to be ashamed and the next
step down the hill of degradation is
for them to imply by hints and looks
that they are the heroes of successes,
and to glory in the fact Of being "chaf:-
ed about Il lady, instead of giving it
to be plainly understood that any fur
ther allusions will be followed by disa-
greeable results. Many of these young
men would be greatly improved by
the rough and ready handling that is
meted out to school boys when they
outrageously violate public opinion in
their small world Many of them
have not the tact to know where to
stop, and finding Il pleasant, agreeable
and pretty lady, who is fond of harm
less fun, think that there is an OPEN
ing for taking liberties, and lay them
selves open to ii most severe snubbing,
| which should crush them for some
time, and give them wholesome les
son us to the proper respect that is to
be shown to ladies. But We are sorry
We have to admit it, the pachyderma-
tous condition of such as these enables
their overweening self-appreciation
and vanity to overcome their mortifi-
cation, and they soon resume theirsfor-
mer course, taking extreme care to
hide their discontinue. being much
| ashamed of that, though not sof the
cause ofit-namely their own ungen-
tlemanlike behavior. OF course. the
excuse is that the women lead them
on, which may be true; but man is
none the less bound to behave like u
gentleman if woman is weak and fall
lible. Gambling and racing are great
stumbling blocks in Il young man S
career now. Many men think that
they can increase their limited income
by resort to these pursuits and how
many poor young fellows have disap-
peared from the ken of men through
this unhappy belief! Luck very Of
ten attends these, when they are feel
ing their way, with comparatively
small stakes; but it is like the will-o'-
the wisp, which is pretty sure to lead
them to their destruction if they have
not the moral courage to stake pull
when they are getting out Of their
depth. 1t only wants a study of the
betting ring to assure men Of com
mon sense that backing horses in the
long run means coming to grief; the
ring increases daily in numbers and
prosperity, none of the old faces dis
appear except by death, while new
ones are continually joining Tatters-
all and apparently prospering, so that
1t must be Obvious that they are do
ing well and making money-but
how at the expense of the hacker.
y beautiful appearance is a silent
recommendation.
Thou canst find fortune more readi-
ly than thou canst retain it.
Clergymen very often introduce the
shop in conversation-the bishop.
There is a Texas paper called Titus
Times, and tight as times are it seems
to make good living.
Here We have it again. Sugar crop
100000 tons short this year. The taf-
fy crop is above the average, however.
The artist. Whistler, who is coming
to America this winter, would be use
ful in sea gale, if he could "whistle
down the wind
well, here's another outburst of
color prejudice in the South obsers-
Ell the Major. 'What is it:' asked
the Judge. "They are quarantining